IBM Expands India Research Ties in AI and Quantum
IBM is deepening long-running collaborations with IIT Bombay and IISc to accelerate work on agentic AI, sovereign AI, and quantum computing.
Compute & Hardware
Chips, datacenters, interconnect, and the power they draw.
Dielectric Metasurfaces Tune Light with Multipole Resonances
Engineered dielectric metasurfaces offer flat, low-loss control of light by exploiting multipole resonances for transmission, reflection, and absorption.
UK Watchdog Investigates Capita's Troubled Civil Service Pension Transfer
The National Audit Office is probing repeated service failures in Capita's £239m pension administration contract, which has left 1.5 million members struggling.
PewDiePie's Ajax AI Model Brings 'Uncensored' Local Assistant to Home PCs
The YouTuber's self-hosted Ajax model highlights the growing push for uncensored, locally run AI and the tensions with frontier labs over distillation.
Micro Center Adds Photo ID and No-Export Pledge to RTX 5090 Sales
The retailer now requires buyers to sign a declaration barring export of the RTX 5090, reflecting tighter U.S. enforcement on high-end GPU smuggling.
Raspberry Pi Hikes 2GB Pi 4 and Pi 5 Prices Again on Memory Costs
Persistent memory shortages push the 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 to $67.50 and the 2GB Pi 5 to $77.50, with no relief in sight.
Elgato Stream Deck XL Drops to $199.99 at Amazon
The 32-key macro pad is 20% off its usual price, giving streamers and productivity users a large customizable control surface.
Chip Research Roundup: CFETs, 2D Transistors, and GPU Security
A new batch of technical papers spans advanced transistor architectures, wafer-scale 2D materials, power delivery, and hardware security.
NVIDIA Launches 64GB DGX Spark at $4,999 Amid RAM Crunch
NVIDIA's new 64GB DGX Spark offers a cheaper entry point for local AI inference, but sources differ on whether it's a true bargain or a response to soaring memory prices.
Met Police suspends Oxygen Forensics use over alleged Russian ownership
Scotland Yard paused its use of a digital forensics tool after US prosecutors linked the vendor to Russian owners and developers.
Abstraction Is the Core of Hardware Design, Infineon/TUM Paper Argues
A new paper from Infineon and TU Munich repositions abstraction from a simplification technique to the defining feature of hardware engineering models.
Flock's First-Responder Drones Face Privacy Backlash in US Cities
US cities are piloting Flock's auto-launching first-responder drones, but privacy concerns are leading others to reject the technology.
NSF Funds $19M National Biological Observatory Led by UC San Diego and UVM
The coast-to-coast infrastructure project will support fundamental life sciences research, backed by a $19 million NSF award.
EuroTPC Fall Hackathon at LRZ Gathers AI-for-Science Researchers
The event highlights transatlantic collaboration on trillion-parameter AI models for scientific computing.
Physical AI Hardware Must Meet Real-Time, Edge, and Environmental Demands
Physical AI systems pair edge inference with closed-loop actuation, forcing hardware designers to treat latency, power, and reliability as first-class constraints.
Suspected Chinese spies phish AI policy experts with fake advisory invites
Proofpoint says a China-aligned group spoofed officials and an Anthropic exec to steal Microsoft 365 credentials from US AI policy researchers.
Investors Price 32.6% AI Productivity Gain for Software Engineers
Stock market data suggests investors expect AI to boost software engineer output by nearly a third, though economists caution markets can overreact.
Gimlet Cloud Adds Cerebras for Up to 3,000 Tokens per Second
The partnership pairs Cerebras wafer-scale systems with Gimlet's inference cloud to push AI token throughput into the thousands per second.